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Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think
by cgijoe 2y ago
Remember the point of an ad. It's to be memorable, and to get people talking about it. Google wants people talking about Gemini. Well, here we are. I think Google won in this instance. But yes, the ad content is very bad.
- xg15 2y agoI mean, by that logic MS couldn't have done better with Tay a few years ago. People were definitely talking about that one...
- kurthr 2y agoPeople are trying to bring back Clippy, because nostalgia for when bad wasn't quite as terrible.
- fzzzy 2y agoSorry to make you feel old, but Tay was over 8 years ago.
- jagged-chisel 2y agoDoes 8 not qualify as “a few?”
- fzzzy 2y agoDoes it? I seriously don't know.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoI was taught that "a few" means 3-7 inclusive, but I can't seem to immediately find anything online to substantiate that; most dictionaries helpfully handwave it as a small number of things, and refuse to clarify what a small number might be.
- xg15 2y agoDang, really thought it was less than that...
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> I mean, by that logic MS couldn't have done better with Tay a few years ago. I was honestly disappointed that Microsoft shut down Tay because they feared reputation damage. So yes, this was in my opinion good advertising, and a bad handling of the outcry from Microsoft's side. I guess Microsoft wants to target a different audience ...
- prepend 2y agoWe’re talking about how Google sucks and is stupid. I don’t think that’s what they wanted.
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoBut the commercial was about black people. Frankly, I think a big portion of this "I hate the ad" noise is just thinly-veiled racist dog whistling.
- fnord77 2y agothere's no bad publicity
- prepend 2y agoI disagree. Having publicity that reduces the value of a brand is bad. I think the expression was created by publicists who, of course, want more publicity no matter what, because it makes them money.
- Jensson 2y agoGoogles brand today is cold correctness, people seeing dystopian AI overlords in them is not going against their brand image. The posts showing how it is wrong is much worse for their image than this is, so people thinking of this rather than the errors is better for their brand.
- prepend 2y agoGoogle’s brand is a bloated cash cow gradually fading to irrelevance. It’s like IBM or 2000s Microsoft or whatever. I don’t think they like this brand. I think they want people talking about things that promote them.
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- jhanschoo 2y agoI feel like there is a material difference when the conversation is about how your product is so hostile that they want to regulate it out of existence.